When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
Paramahansa YoganandaYou naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.
Paramahansa YoganandaMeet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
Paramahansa YoganandaRelease for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
Paramahansa YoganandaThe reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.
Paramahansa Yogananda